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About The Advocate-Democrat. (Crawfordville, Ga.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 16, 1897)
BIG SENSATION Over the Fight for United State Senatorship in Kemtucky. BRIBERY AND CONSPIRACY Is Charged Against Candidate Hun¬ ter and His Lieutenants. PROMINENT REPUBLICANS Indicted By the Grand Jury and Very Sen¬ sational Developments Expected. Sweep¬ ing Denials by the Parties implicated. Fifteen Thousand Dollars for Three Votes. Louisville, Ivy.— A special to the Evening Post from Frankfort, says: Indictments charging bribery and con¬ spiracy to bribe have been prepared by the Franklin county grand jury against the most prominent Rapublt cans ia the State, viz.: Ex-Congress man AV. Godfrey Hunter, of the Third District, the Republican nominee for the United States Senate; Ex-Cougress man John H. Wilson, of the Eleventh District, one of Dr. Hunter’s closest advisers, and Hon. E. T. Franks one of the leading Republican politicians of the Second District, The indict ments were prepared last night upon the testimony of Capt. Noel Gaines arid Capt. Tanner, his brother-in-law, and Fred Gordon, all of this city. The charges are indignantly denied by Dr. Hunter, Mr. Wilson and Mr. Franks, all of whom say they will prosecute for criminal libel all who have testified to the above facts before the grand jury. They claim that it is the last desperate effort of the Blackburn Democrats to prevent Dr Hunter’s election, which seemed a certainty, in view of the fact that he lacked only one vote at the ballot on Saturday.. The following authorized interview was given out Saturday morning by Capt. Thomas Tanner, one of the ac¬ cused witnesses: “I was called to the Capitol Hotel Monday night and had a conference with Wilson in room 29. AVilson had a big roll of bills; be said there was $5, 000 in the package, and from .ill ap¬ pearances there was. There were four ■acn packages, or * 20 , 000 , and ’Ire said this would be paid for four votes for Dr. Hunter. I Uad several conferences with Franks in the same room; was last called there Thursday morning, when they seemed to think that some members of the Legislature had offer¬ ed to succumb for $10JXK), but they thought this too high.” Oapt. Jioel Gaines testified before tire grand jury in part as follows: “When Dr. Hunter came to my house he. Dr. Hunter, opened the conversa¬ tion by saying that he had been told 1 could aid him in getting three votes, t told him that I did not know whether It was possible to get them or not, but I would study over It and see. "Hunter said: ‘I want three votes Mid am willing to pay $15,000, or $5,000 a vote. I will furnish the money all right, but will hare to have one of my representatives complete the trade and give you the money as it would not do for me to hand it to you.’ “He said ho would have Ex-Con greasntan John H. AVilson, one of his friends, call on me. Hunter told me that Representative AV. G. Gassont, and Negro Clark, of Warren Oounty, and John H. Johns, of . loyd County, could be gotten and they should be the first ones for me to see as he was pret¬ ty certain I could get mem. “On the next evening about the same hour, Mr. John H. Wilson came over In company with Mr. Tanner and we all three went into the library of my house. Mr. AVilson began by saying that Dr. Hunter had sent him to see me and that be (Wilson) wanted to know if I had talked with Gassom, Clark and Johns, and if I had made a trade with them. I told him I had not. AVilson said: *We have got the $15,000 here and are ready to give it to them If they would agree to vote for Hunter and continue to vote for him until he was elected.’ “Wilson said to me: 'I want you to go right to work with them now and make the trade with them quick.’ “Mr. Wilson came back to my house to see me after the two occasions. On one occasion he said: ’The agreement is now that this money will be turned over to you when the men vote. If you can’t get these men to vote for Hunter get them to go away, and if you can’t get them to go away have them slipped out and keep them out until the ballot is over.’ ” The greatest excitement prevailed during the first ballot for Senator at noon Friday. The galleries and lob¬ bies were crowded. The Republicans denounced the charges in unmeasured terms, saying it waa a dirty scheme to defeat Hunter. A statement signed by Mr. Wilson was laid on the desk of the members. The statement denied all the charges, and said that Gaines made the propo¬ sition and they believed it a scheme to entrap Dr. Hunter. Before the roll was called there was a list light ia the gallery. The call of the roll showed no quorum present, but a vote was taken anyway, which gave Hunter 57 and Boyle 1. Sixty answered to their names. A motion to adjourn brought out the absentees, and the rote stood 6 S to 5S, but President Worthington voted to continue and the second ballot was ordered. The fight in the gallery was between Tom Morrow, of Somerset, a ruat'vu of Judge T. Z. Morrow, and a nephew of Gov. Bradley, and Peter A. Sanders, a local Hunter Republican. Sanders struck Morrow over the eye w ith a pair of brass knuckles, mak'ng an ngly cut and drawing the blood ia copious quantities. Sanders was arrested. There was no change on the second ballot. THE WIND’S WORK. Angry Cyclone Visited Portions of Geor¬ gia and Alabama. Atlanta, Ga.—Telegrams from Ozark, Ala., and Valdosta, Ga., crossing the Ill-fated town of Arlington, Ga., show that this section was visited by anoth¬ er cyclone, ascending the Apalachico la Valley and sweeping northward with terrific force to the confluence of the Chattahoochee and Flint Rivers, where it divided, in one direction going toward Ozark, where timbers were up¬ rooted and houses blown to pieces, sev eral lives were lost, among them Mrs. Powers, who was caught beneath the falling timbers of her nouse and crush¬ ed. Her husband was unable to save her and was himself badly hurt, but he rushed off through tire blinding rain and intense darkness for assistance. The rest of the family were rescued, among them a baby three weeks old, whom the mother protected at the cost of her own life. The second section of the cyclone was deflected upon the Flint Valley, breaking across South Georgia and passing through Arlington, where, but a few weeks ago nine children were killed in the ruins of their school house. Reaching Valdosta, the storm became intensified in fury and trees were blown in every part of the city. A church in tile southern part of the city was wrenched from its founda¬ tions and twisted into fragicmts by tire angry winds. The car boxes on the Plant System were blown off the track. Lightning struck a switchboard In the Western Union telegraph office and set fire to the building. From many of the other towns In the vicinity reports of an equally alarming nature are coming in. INDIAN BAV COUNTRY. Intense Misery for 500 People and 1,500 Head of Stock. Little Rock, Ark.—According to let ters received by the local relief corn mittee, every foot of land in the In dian Bay country is now under water, and the situation there is appalling. One letter from Holly Grove, Ark., says that the people there have not re coived any supplies, and the situation is becoming rapidly worse, as the wa, ter is still rising. Live stock and peo¬ ple were carried to the highest place* when the floods first came, and were temporarily safe, but now every foot of land is covered with water. There are 1,500 head of live stock and 500 persons in the district, and not one morsel to feed them. The letter con¬ tinues: “We beg and plead of you, for humanity’s sake, to try ami assist us.” The Chairman of the local relief com¬ mittee says that rations for 500 people for one week were shipped to Holly Grove on the 3d, but were delayed in transit and are expected to reach the sufferers, A letter from Chairman Butts, of the Helena relief committee, says that the situation there is materially changed. The entire country contiguous to the river is from one to twenty feet under water, but the city la thought to be safe. Supplies are not needed, but funds are necessary to rescue irerson# who have been cut off without skiffs. A Lizzard In Her Stomach. Clayton, N. Y.—Mrs. Adid.s Shoitts Marshall, a marired woman of this place, aged 17, voimted up a dead Hzard about five inches long. Mrs. \t ar8 hall had had stomaeu trouble dur i n g the last two years, and could ob tain no relief from uied.cal treatment, gjnee March. 18tb, rite Isas taken no lid food, and Saturday tii,’ t ” , go dma. Broke AT I D Pones. McKenzie, Tenn .—!’n 'tin Robertson, of the Twenty-seco’ui D strier, of,Car roll County, was struck by ligutu ng and instantly '...r d. Every bone in his body was broken. * r #• } » y This great remedy is indorsed by physicians, and prescribed by them all over the world. Positively guaranteed to cure the most stubborn cases. The formula is published plainly on every bottle. As a tonic it is Superior TO ALL Sarsaparillas For Female Complaints and building up run-down sys¬ tems it acts like magic. Try a bottle and be convinced. READ THE TRUTH EXTRACT FROM BOOK OF TESTIMONIALS. “Was a rheumatic pufferor for 18 months. Derived no benefit from physicians, treatment at Mineral Wells, Tax., or Hot Springn, Ark. My doctor declared ray condition hopeless, bur. as a IhhI. resort advised P. P I’ Upomuu’a Great Remedy.Through il » UBU 1 am , VV. F. II MINI INS, to-diiv u well man.” 4c Hines, Leading Grocers, Waxahachio, Tex. of by 'Timmins? FlAKENS, Druggist Indorsed B. W. “P P.P.,MW«MW»’SGreat Remedy, mo of difficult breath lutt and palpitation uf tlm heart. Hud not fdopt on either side for two years; now I at op soundly In A^AMSAY, Do Leon, Tex. “Sworn to and ..baertbed befor^me^^ ^ VaA^ manv Great r ^ Remedy. fg d J?WM0K. Savannah. Ga. sold ) all druggists i by LIPPMAN BR0’5. proprietors, PPM AN’S BLOCK-SAVANNAH. GA. BECOniNG TRULY AWFUL. - Red River of the North Takes a Fresh Hold for Devastation, Grand Forks, N. D.—The Red River is rising more ttgin ever, and a still greater rise is looked for from Red Lake River, where a gorge has broken. Between this city and Pembina at least 250 families are camped In the second stories of their dwellings and on top of their barns and strawstacks, together with all their cattle that can be got up. On many farms cattle are standing three feet lit water. Good boats and a Great Northern steamer will start out as soon as they can be got ready nud provisioned for ten days to rescue people and stock In all the lower river section. Many families near the Grand Forks have been res¬ cued oil rafts. A very little further rise wiii drown stock for hundreds ot miles. At Pembina the water Is rising an inch an hour, but Hie waters from the river that have done such damage at Fargo and Grand Forks have not yet reached them. The conditions that will exist at Winnipeg when the flood finally reaches there are awful to con¬ template. THE GOLD DEMOCRATS Will Hold an Important Conference In New York Soon. New York, N. Y.—Former President Cleveland, John G. Carlisle, former Secretary of the Treasury, and Wil¬ liam L. Wilson, former Postmaster General, will be guests at the dinner given by the Reform Club at the AVal dorf on Saturday evening, April 24th. Between 500 and 000 leading Demo erata will attend, and! the affair is like¬ ly’ to make Democratic history. In connection with this gathering It Is proposed to bold a conference of gold standard Democrats In this city. Invitations are being sent out to the leaders of the gold faction in the va¬ rious States, and tbe conference. It I* expected, will last for two days. It will be held in Chickering Hall, April 23d and 24th, being considered as moat desirable. CATARRH MALARIA & TROUBLES \ BLOTCHES | I s IS &OLDSORES RHEUMATISM REMEDY. tu SEND FOR & BOOKLET. DKflOCRAT APPOINTED. A Prominent Tennessee Democrat Given a l-at Office. Washington, D. C. Secretary of Ag riculture Wilson has appointed Charles W. Dabney, Jr., of Tennessee, Assist¬ ant Secretary of Agriculture under Hie Cleveland Administration, to be “Spec ial Agent In charge of Scientific and Statistical Investigation." The salary is fixed at $4,500 per year. This is the largest compens.r.oii pnld any official in the Government service designated either by the President or a Cabinet officer, who is not confirmed by the Senate, with the slngD excep |ion of the Director of tire Bureau of American Republics. Secretary Wilson's creation of an office and Its bestowal upon a Demo¬ crat are bitterly denounced by those Republican# who are looking In vain for positions not blanisetod by civil service regulation. More Trouble for Turkey. London, ling. A dispatch from Con¬ stantinople reports serious trouble near the Montenegrin frontier In the district of Kerim. .Sanguinary conflicts have taken place betwe-u the Albanian Mussulmans and tine Christians. Tin 1 troops sent to restore order tost sev eral men killed. The Montenegrin Min inter in Constantinople, it is added, has sent a protest warning tire Turkish Government If the Mussulmans con¬ tinue their attacks it will be difficult for Montenegro to prevent her subject* from going to tire assistance of the Christiana. (tally to Protest. New York, N. V. l-ouls Contention A Son, of this city, received a di* patch from Rome the other day stating that the Italian Government has au¬ thorized its Ambassador to file a pro test with the Se cretary of Stub- against a prohibitory duty being love d on or ange s ami lemons. The Ohamlrers of Commerce of Naples, Palermo, Rome and Calaba have also communicated with the sub committee of tire Commit¬ tee on Finance <ju this subject. A (jnJek Reftponiae. The Westminster Gazette recalls as anecdote whleh was once related by Canon Wllberforco whilu preaching la the abbey: Christmas Evans, a famoue Welsh preacher, had ventured to ex¬ press in public bis admiration for the singlns of Jenny Lind, and even to give thanks for the same. Herrin innm UciH of the congregation wi re scal daJIzcd, and one of them felt called upon to mount the pulpit slepH and administer a public rebuke to lire min¬ ister. In the course of his admonition, he asked: "Do you mean to teach that a man who should die at one of Jenny Lind'* concerts would go to heaven?” ".Sir,” was the instant cesponse ol Mr. Evans, "a Christian will go to hea¬ ven wherever he dies, hut a fool re mains a tool, even on the pulpit steps,* All Ex*rit se —I >1 < Ili-q. Little Itock, Ark. Governor Jones Ims Issued Ids proclamation calling the General Assembly to convene In extra session Monday, April 2<lth. Twenty three items for legislation are S|s-i4 (ied in the proclamation, the most im¬ portant being necessary appropria¬ tions; railroad commissions; relief for flood and drouth sufferers, and 'bang¬ ing the fence and levee laws. Glass Work* Destroyed. Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Tire Pmigh keepsie Glass Works were completely destroyed by fire Friday. The only part of the factory that Hie firemen were able to save wee- the office atul some aheds, under which new goods were spiral. Tbe loss approximates about $100,000, Inaurauc*, $70,000. <»lf ft»r th« Frontj**r. London, Kng. An ObH*rv<T diajmD'h from Athens my* 8 ,000 troo^i* Iiavo jfixt Ft.'irfr'd for the frontier. OfHHal IiftH heat received of outrage* f'ornmDU'd on (ireekn off Smyrna by HaiJorH connected with the ffroimh war Mhijm, No td(H‘knde of dra ie |jl*N*n <Io<*!ar I yet, uceonUttg to Mm* lnti*Ht advices received by t ue Ob*. rv**r.
